[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Add BUG_ON when ring->private is NULL

[Sean Paul]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:43:21PM -0400, Sean Paul wrote:
>> I have experienced a number of NULL pointer dereferences on
>> suspend/resume where ring->private is NULL. These come from failed
>> initialization of the ring buffer. Sincce this doesn't seem to be easily
>> recoverable, this patch adds a BUG_ON and a bread crumb pointer for
>> people who might encounter this in the future.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org>
> Chris shot this down on irc, BUG_ON isn't really more useful than a NULL
> pointer oops. I agree, so I've dropped this from -next.

Yep, makes sense, I agree. Thanks for the explanation.

Sean

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